Breakfast & Lunch Seminars followed by our standard evening meetup

Tuesday 10th of May 2016

Announcement:
Due to demand we have added 10 extra tickets to each of our seminars. You can buy these direct here.

This month we are running the first in our new series of WordPress Breakfast & Lunch seminars. These events are hosted by Make Do, a Yorkshire-based WordPress development, design and support agency and are free of charge and open to anyone.

Selling with WordPress

09:30 – 11:30 – Breakfast seminar

WordPress is now a powerful and secure platform for selling your products and services online.

In this session Dave Green (Senior WordPress Engineer at Make Do) runs through eCommerce options business for of all sizes and explains how anyone can setup their own online store and start selling online with WordPress.

Accessibility and WordPress

12:30 – 14:00 – Lunch seminar

Good accessibility is the most important part of any website. This is especially key for public sector, government and charity websites who run the risk of excluding vulnerable people from their websites.

In this session, Matt Watson (Development Lead at Make Do) will talk about his experience with accessibility and cover topics that are likely a lot broader than you might think. Matt will cover important areas such as, UX, WCAG, optimisation and performance and even SEO because remember, Google is blind!

6pm – WordPress Sheffield, evening meetup

Pipe10 – 2016 venue partner

Now into it’s 6th year the monthly WordPress Sheffield meetup has been on sabbatical for a few months due to a change in venue.

We are also welcoming local hosting company Pipe10 as our venue partners for 2016 who working alongside the Make Do team make sure that the Sheffield meetup continues to happen.

Tim Nash: Waterfall and Unicorns – A guide to performance even on the cheapest of hosts

Our May event will include a talk from WordPress server and hosting expert Tim Nash (34sp.com) about how to improve WordPress performance as well as a WordPress News Rundown from the WordPress Sheffield organiser Kimb Jones (Managing Director of Make Do) which will cover news around the latest WordPress update (v4.5), the latest plugin releases and community and WordCamp news.